Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the ...

1. What Are Fermi Bubbles? No, this is not a rare digestive disorder. The bubbles are massive, mysterious structures that emanate from the Milky Ways center and extend roughly 20,000 light-years above ...

Scientists studying the edge of the observable universe encountered strange and deeply unsettling mysteries hidden within the furthest regions of deep space. The deeper astronomers looked into the ...

The Universe’s Biggest Mysteries Still Baffle Scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Mind-blowing. Those are the two words I'd use to describe the "Mysteries of the Universe" weekender discovery tour, hosted by New Scientist. Over two days in the Cheshire countryside, a group of space ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: However, nailing down the universe’s exact expansion rate (known as the Hubble constant, or H₀) hasn’t been easy. Today scientists rely on two ...

Our latest and best ever map of the early universe is five times more detailed than anything we have had before, but while it precisely backs up the leading model of the universe, it is also a ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...